x, 371 pages :

Includes bibliographical references (pages 359-361) and index

Part 1. The Big Picture In Simple Terms : -- 1. The Main Puzzles -- 2. Time Capsules -- 3. A Timeless World -- Part 2. The Invisible Framework And The Ultimate Arena : -- 4. AlternativeFrameworks -- 5. Newton's Evidence -- 6. The Two Great Clocks in the Sky -- 7. Paths in Platonia -- Part 3. The Deep Structure Of General Relativity : -- 8. The Bolt from the Blue -- 9. Minkowski the Magician -- 10. The Discovery of General Relativity -- 11. General Relativity: The Timeless Picture -- Part 4. Quantum Mechanics And Quantum Cosmology : -- 12. The Discovery of Quantum Mechanics -- 13. The Lesser Mysteries -- 14. The Greater Mysteries -- 15. The Rules of Creation -- 16. `That Damned Equation' -- Part 5. History In The Timeless Universe : -- 17. The Philosophy of Timelessness -- 18. Static Dynamics and Time Capsules -- 19. Latent Histories and Wave Packets -- 20. The Creation of Records -- 21. The Many-Instants Interpretation -- 22. The Emergence of Time and its Arrow --

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